you completely missed the point

You think you can do better for 15 dollars go ahead.

During setup before answering any pointless questions by microsoft press press Shift + F10 and type

Start ms-cxh:localonly

Enjoy your offline account.

No one should have to do that stupid shit, it should be opt in only. The only reason for this model is to trick idiots into buying a subscription they never wanted or needed.

The cloud is just someone elses computer, you could pay 19.99 a year for 100 gbs of storage on some shady corporations server somewhere for them to inevitably jack up the price. Or you could not be an idiot and buy a 128 gb flash drive for 14.99 one time and have that storage forever.

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Im dying on it either way.

Then stick with windows 10, once you debloat it and disable all the privacy invasive shit its not the worst OS ever, that title belongs to javaOS. There is no perfect option. There will always be some downside you have to contend with.

Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.

Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.

I never had either issue using Bazzite. Theres a distro for almost everything find the one that works for you.

“non-working webcams” sounds like a plus IMO but I get your point.

P.S theres a reason I used “almost”

Just buy a laptop, stop trying to complicate the process. The great thing about linux is that it runs fine on almost anything.

I was sad she lost the election only because that means trump won and Walz was out. She is complicit with genocide, Kamala can take a long walk off of a short cliff for all I care.

And yet I hear dumbshits bragging all time about how alexa controls my (insert thing that definitely does not need automation here).

These sort of people never think beyond tomorrow and it shows.

But it would still be an HP so… gross.